It wasn't. Stalingrad didn't exist until after Stalin took over Russia. Stalingrad was called Volograd in WW1 and wasn't involved in any direct battles by German troops. It was the site of a number of battles during the Russian Civil War. The Siege of Stalingrad took place in WW2
Volgograd is the new name of Stalingrad
The fought on the Eastern front of WW2. The farthest East they fought was the city of Stalingrad, (now called Volgograd.) on the Volga River, and by the end of the war, the Eastern front was nothing more than the Eastern side of Berlin.
After Stalingrad, Germany went on the defensive. So it was a defensive type of war.
Germany suffered setbacks in Stalingrad and El Alamein in 1942
It's a large city in Western Russia, now called Volgograd.
As of 2021, the population of the city formerly known as Stalingrad, now called Volgograd, is approximately 1 million people.
Volgograd .
No, Saint Petersburg and Stalingrad are not the same cities. Saint Petersburg was once called Leningrad, though. Stalingrad, now known as Volgograd, is about 1,686 km away from Saint Petersburg. About two hours and thirty minutes via airplane.
The city really was called Stalingrad, named after Josef Stalin, the current political leader of the USSR at the time
volgograd.
Answer This city name first was 'Tsaritsyn' Then 'Stalingrad' (until 1958-60). Now 'Volgograd'.
The city of Stalingrad , now renamed Volgograd after the river , was named after the Russian dictator Josef Stalin .
The city once called Stalingrad was originally called Tsaritsin (from 1598 until 1925). In 1925 it was renamed Stalingrad after Josef Stalin successfully defended it in 1918 during the Russian civil war (or revolution) In 1961 , after Stalin had fallen from grace, it was renamed again, this time as Volgograd after the river which flows through the city. It still has that name.
Tsaritsyn now renamed Volgograd .
Volgograd. It was changed to Stalingrad on 10 April 1925
Stalingrad or Leningrad